Develop proposal for special issue

Background: Why a Special Issue on Geoscience Papers of the Future?

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Motivation: The EarthCube Initiative and the GeoSoft Project

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What is a GPF

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Related work

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Papers to be included

For each submission, we describe:

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[David 2015]

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[Demir 2015]

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[Fulweiler 2015]

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[Karlstrom and Lay 2015]

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[Lee 2015]

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[Miller 2015]

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[Mills 2015]

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[Oh 2015]

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[Pierce 2015]

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[Pope 2015]

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[Read and Winslow 2015]

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[Tzeng 2015]

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[Villamizar 2015]

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[Yu 2015]

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Special Issue Editors

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The editors will only accept submissions that follow the special issue review criteria.

The editors will select a set of reviewers to handle the submissions. Reviewers will include computer scientists, library scientists, and geoscientists.

Special Issue Review Criteria

The reviewers will be asked to provide feedback on the papers according to the following criteria:

• Documentation of the datasets: descriptions of datasets, unique identifiers, repositories.
• Documentation of software: description of all software used (including pre-processing of data, visualization steps, etc), unique identifiers, repositories.
• Documentation of the provenance of results: provenance for each figure or result, such as the workflow or the provenance record.

Tentative Timeline

• Journal committed to special issue: April 15, 2015
• Submissions due to editors: June 30, 2015
• Reviews due: Sept 15, 2015
• Decisions out to authors: Sept 30, 2015
• Revisions due: October 31, 2015
• Final versions due November 15, 2015
• Issue published December 31, 2015